Literature
Glass Sands Chapter 5
Tsuishi clutched her weapons pouch against her chest, her back pressed against the wall. The living room was dark, save for a faint glow from the kitchen where her parents spoke to one another in low, tense voices.
"I forbid her to go on this mission!"
"Haruki, you know well enough that you can't keep Tsuishi from going. She's a kunoichi - one of the best in the village - and she's under orders from the Hokage. You can't stop her."
Tension swelled in the air, a mother's determination warring against the beast called Truth. Tsuishi felt the heaviness of it weighing down her heart with every breath she drew. She knew that Haruki always worri